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God that fucking blows. I know the pain all too well from a few years back when I reformatted after burning all my music to CDs, then put them in after the OS installed only to find that they were all corrupt.
You should be able to recover the files with the right recovery software.
I don't think that will work too well. I am afraid that the hard drive now being used as system and boot was formerly my media hard drive.... It is quite likely that the sectors have been written too. Besides, in my experience, undelete operations are not perfect. Audio tends to like perfect reproduction.
Yeah, I remember at work an absent minded co-worker started a quick format of a hard drive with a very important database file on it. I can't remember what he used to recover it, but it worked.
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The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed LINUX.
Yeah, unless you over wrote the data with random uh...data, it should still be there. I think the HD drive just marks it for overwritting but doesn't actually "erase" it. I'd look into it.
jpegODIE, YOUR FACEScenic Illinois FlatlandsRegistered Userregular
edited February 2007
After this happened to me twice (instead of it just being music, it was also roughly 4 years of art and graphic design/web design work down the drain also) I just partition my drive with all my files and installers on one large partition, and all my windows files and programs on C:. That way I can format and reinstall windows without even touching my shit.
In other words, ugh that sucks I know what that's like
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so I just type in this box and it goes on the screen?
provided you didn't do a DoD-wipe or something similar, the data is still there, just not tabled.
"shop" online for some good recovery software, the worst that can happen is that you get nothing, but even with audio it is very very possible to keep the data just fine.
When I reformat a drive I do it all the way, therefore making it impossible to retrieve anything without days and days and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expense.
You can usually take your broke ass HD to a computer repair store. The dudes there SHOULD have ghosting software if they are worth a damn. Course they get to see all your tranny porn.
I have 24.6 gigs of music. I would cry if I lost it.
Last I checked I had 40something gigs of music on my external hard drive, and a good portion of it is CDs I bought, ripped, and promptly lost. if I lost all of that I would probably just leap off a building.
Or get busy "purchasing" large quantities of music. Y'know, with all that money I've got.
I have hexedit at work. I install it on this machine tomorrow and see if I can see the data. I know NTFS pretty well, so I should be able to find most of that stuff on my own. I think I have a license of the forensics module (I hope).
I am REALLY worried that the sectors have been written to already though... If that has happend, I doubt I will try to salvage the data, as what would come out would be pretty badly corrupted.
provided you didn't do a DoD-wipe or something similar, the data is still there, just not tabled.
"shop" online for some good recovery software, the worst that can happen is that you get nothing, but even with audio it is very very possible to keep the data just fine.
When I reformat a drive I do it all the way, therefore making it impossible to retrieve anything without days and days and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expense.
suck it gub'mint assholes, MY DATA is MY DATA.
gdisk disk /DISKWIPE /DOD
uhhh... you know us gob'mint people can still recover a good portion of that, right?
well, if he's anything like me it involved alcohol
a few months back i accidentally deactivated the swap space on my compy one night and it took me a week to figure out why i kept running out of memory while using firefox for more than an hour or two
i need to figure out why i thought it was a good idea to do the MC Hammer slide in and out of the bathroom
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Moe FwackyRight Here, Right NowDrives a BuickModeratorMod Emeritus
edited February 2007
I have all of my music backed up in three places. One here on the desktop (on a separate physical drive than I have Linux installed on). The second is on my laptop. The third is at my job on campus. When I started there, we had a network folder for our music, but since I started dropping ungodly amounts of music on it, they switched us to a 100GB external hard drive. This way, no matter what, I've got a road to recovery. Unless all three devices just take a major shit at the exact same time.
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Even after a reformat?
I don't think that will work too well. I am afraid that the hard drive now being used as system and boot was formerly my media hard drive.... It is quite likely that the sectors have been written too. Besides, in my experience, undelete operations are not perfect. Audio tends to like perfect reproduction.
i'd look into it myself.
you might have just messed up the boundaries between partitions too, in which cased it should be fairly easy to recover.
Not me. That shit's expensive.
In other words, ugh that sucks I know what that's like
"shop" online for some good recovery software, the worst that can happen is that you get nothing, but even with audio it is very very possible to keep the data just fine.
When I reformat a drive I do it all the way, therefore making it impossible to retrieve anything without days and days and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expense.
suck it gub'mint assholes, MY DATA is MY DATA.
gdisk disk /DISKWIPE /DOD
As in you need one computer to ghost the crap to from your HD. Maybe someone can help you out.
I think ghosting software costs 100-200 bucks
but cheaper than buying hundreds of discs
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i had 2 harddrives fail within a week of each other, 120GB of music gone
i had about 50 of it backed up, but it was a backup 3 years out of date so it was all shit i never listened to
need a hug?
not if you sell drugs
Last I checked I had 40something gigs of music on my external hard drive, and a good portion of it is CDs I bought, ripped, and promptly lost. if I lost all of that I would probably just leap off a building.
Or get busy "purchasing" large quantities of music. Y'know, with all that money I've got.
I am REALLY worried that the sectors have been written to already though... If that has happend, I doubt I will try to salvage the data, as what would come out would be pretty badly corrupted.
uhhh... you know us gob'mint people can still recover a good portion of that, right?
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uh oh... is that there some fightin words for an e-penis music collection size throwdown?
what with
all of the confirmation windows
well, if he's anything like me it involved alcohol
a few months back i accidentally deactivated the swap space on my compy one night and it took me a week to figure out why i kept running out of memory while using firefox for more than an hour or two
I don't even know code or remember doing anything with code the night before
I broke IE and media player so hard
Oh well, that's in another year!